What happened to video games and their communities.

>>250019554
saturation
the future is mainstream,video games are the next tv shows

>>250019554
More mentally handicapped people took interest in the internet and video games.

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pony fags ruined Team Fortress 2

>>250020151
Valve ruined TF2

>>250019554
Jesus i haven't seen that classic gif in YEARS.
Thanks for posting and reminded me of it OP!

About the topic: >>250020016 >>250020051
What those 2 said pretty much

>>250020151
No, F2P ruined TF2, just like it ruins every game.

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>>250019554
Old gifs thread?

>>250019554

Oh man, I remember when I used to post like that unironically.

So did everyone else in those games.

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>>250020253
>>250020421
how to spot the pony faggots

>>250020732
I'm trying to find the 3 LOtR gifs, but I seem to be disorganized.

>>250019554
Damn I miss pre 2007

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Found em

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>>250021060

>>250020706
I haven't seen that shit in forever

>>250019554
this shit gif has always been cringy as fuck

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>>250021220

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>>250021220
fuck it's been a while

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>>250021290
That's why you laugh, anonymous.

That's the point.

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I got more LotR

Consoles and dedicated servers being replaced with matchmaking.

>That gif

Holy shit that's got to be like ten years old by now, probably older.

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>>250021557
>nigga you can't fight a tree lol

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>>250020462

>>250020706
Post the guy lighting himself on fire

>>250021859
I remember seeing this on Hatena the first day it came out

>>250019554
>we're getting fucking pwnz0rd

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hey guys

>>250022021
Haven't seen this version though

>Playing on any European server
>Everybody is completely silent
>No voice chat, no regular chat, not even in-game commands
>Feels like I'm playing with bots every time
>The few times there's people talking it's always a clusterfuck of languages and broken English flinging shit at each other at the end of the round

All we need is like, 4 cubic tonnes of sand
Right over there

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>>250021557
This is 2 funny

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>>250022281
Gotta search for flash link to that song.

Fuck, what was it. Some guy singing about how spiderman is gay and so are you.

someone post the one with the guy in the matrix (i think its matrix) playing counter strike and then he gets a blue screen

>>250022448
holy shit flipnote hatena, that community turned to shit real fast.

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>>250022401
Gotta find it first, my old folders are disorganized and full of broken files.

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I don't really miss it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqXW-OMvpP0

>>250022996
I do, love that face.

But seeing current /v/, I guess it's better off dead.

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>>250022525
>someone still posts my gifs
You just made my day

>>250022976
It really did.
It was mostly because of furries and online dating.
I mostly went on Hatena to play pokemon with a group of people, but after it closed down we got separated so we couldn't play pokemon together.

>>250023249
got the steam one? that shit was jolly good

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>Nobody will ever email this gif to you again
>Nobody will ever email you again
>Nobody will ever email again

Normalfags

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Do not click, ye have been warnededededed.

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>>250022996

Matchmaking instead of server browsers killed communities.

DLC killed communities.

F2P killed communities.

Dumbing down of games killed communities. (example all Rainbow 6 1-3 communities died because Lockdown/Vegas were made)

And the saturation of games killed communities. No longer do people stick with only 1 game, but they play many games and lose touch with people.

Could probably come up with more reasons with some time.

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>>250023490
Ally McBeal was the harbinger of what was to come, why didn't we listen?

>>250023659
You're right on the money with all of that, especially matchmaking over server browsers.

>>250023532

Wasn't this made when microsoft droped all suport to XP?

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>>250023490

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What went wrong?

>this thread reminded me of whirled
fuck

>>250022850
I can hear it in my head

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BASED WALL

no one cares about having fun unless it is pressing random buttons.

Noxious Net Garrysmod Zombie Survival

Oh the countless hours spent, into the night, but that server really felt like it had somewhat of a community, was fun few years.

>>250023847
John Denver was rolling in his flaming casket the day that screensaver was introduced.

www.pwned.nl

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>>250023941
>Hitler
>drug-free

>>250020151

Furfags had ruined TF2 years before, horsefuckers are raping the rotten corpse.

>>250023887
>Marked for deletion (old)

Fuck i forgot all about this, funny this place used to move slow enough that this was even a thing then.

These gifs are surprisingly funny.

>>250019554
guys.. I miss when people talked and acted like this with games. Am I alone? I didn't really partake in typing like that back in the day but I didn't mind it either. Things felt much more vidya oriented when people typed like that. I could see how one would interpret people talking this way as trying to fit in, but I don't think it was that way. It felt like some geek who played 10 hours a day was on the other side of the screen. Normies would see someone typing that way and hate it. Now everyone in multiplayer feels like a normie

its all anonymitus fault

>>250023532

Which rogueamp video is this from? Been trying to find it.

>>250019554
Without dedicated servers, gaming communities have no hope of long term survival.
Blame consoles and matchmaking.

>>250024345
I miss old internet too, man.

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>>250023887
>You will never be on the internet circa 2004-2007 again

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>>250019554
communities got too big
example: server sharing and lfr in WoW
there is no sense of community when you push tens of thousands of people together who can do whatever they want and can just head back to their server afterward

another example: 5 dollar ticket to server transfer in WoW

>>250022850
>laughingelfman.jpg

>>250024345
>if you dont type like an autist you are a "normie"

ever think it is faggots like you who are Autismal Prime that are making non normalfags look like normalfags?

>>250019554
Feels

Millenialls ruined online gaming

>>250024602
>used to play on Ragnarok Online Pservers that never had more than 100 people on it at all times
>that comfy feel

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>>250019554
Oversaturation. There's too many multiplayer games to have a proper community based around a specific game. New games and sequels get released so often it's impossible to keep track of if you're attempting to find yourself a community.

Once you find a few people to play with, the next game is out and people move onto that or other things, splitting up that community.

That isn't to say communities don't still exist, they do but are more around games that are going to stick around for a while, I.e Counterstrike, ASSFAGGOTS, occasional MMOs maybe.

WoW was the last big community game and eventually the target audience for that game changed to a more casual experience because that's who wants to play now.

>>250024345
I miss it, it was way of excluding normalfags from games and fostering our own culture that was difficult for outsiders to penetrate.

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>someone used this as an avatar on the old forum you used

the internet used to be funny

>>250024134
Reminds me of this: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/287897

>>250024092
what the fuck why does this exist, why do they call themselves agents. why is jstylin such a moron, why did I watch this almost entirely till I couldn't be bothered going on to the end

This was a worse viewing experience than the cheetos .gif

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>>250021990
Diablo II.. my nigga, I remember that.

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>>250024956
YES

>>250024345
At one point in history you had to actually have some intelligence to use a personal computer and some decent bank to even own one. In that period of history you could go online and act like a fool and it was understood by everyone else that you were just joking and being funny.

Today, any fucking retarded yahoo can use the internet from any number of devices and be retarded in cyberspace.

You hate the loss of competence, anon. Many of us do.

>>250021506
somebody has probably gotten off to that gif

video games became more popular then ever.

consoles need servers. i hate match making. pc you can pick the server. i use to play counter strike source, pick a 24/7 de dust and office.

It feels retro as fuck seeing an image with text on it that isn't Impact bold.

>>250024956
My brain is tingling right now from the nostalgic overload.

http://www.mostfungames.com/the-skull-kid.htm

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>>250025637
Yeah, your in a thread with him right now.

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There are lots of reasons however one that affects me the most is MLG and other company sponsored tournaments.

Before a Quake tournament or a Starcraft tournament was simple. Someone who loves the game has the money to rent out a venue, they advertise that they are holding a tourney and maybe there's an entry fee to go back to the guy who payed for the venue.


Then we all get to together and have one big Lan party tournament. No stream viewers, MAYBE a cash prize, no sponsors just a group of people who love the game who want to hone their skills and show just how much ass they can kick. It was a nice community thing, we all had our part to play in making it happen and it made us really value eachother and the game.


Nowadays large companies will actually create and host tournaments and even invite top players to them. At first this seems cool but overall what it does is turn the scene into money making machine fishing for viewers on twitch and luring in people with promises of BIG MONEY instead of it being a community driven thing by people who genuinely love the game.

>>250024854

This.

There was a time when multiplayer games had everlasting value, games people were passionate about and could play for years and years. Now it's just flavor of the month AAA shit that gets hyped up then everyone quickly loses interest. And like others in this thread said, normalfags really getting into vidya and the internet ruined shit.

Alot of people on /v/ hate Dota 2, but it's one of the only multiplayer games left that has that early 2000's feel to it.

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>>250024956
>>someone used this as an avatar on the old forum you used

also pic related

>>250023887
>/l/

those were better times.

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Internet / 4chan / GIF nostalgia thread nao.
DO EEEEET

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>Find cool new multi player game.
>Community starts tiny and dies within the week because there's too many fucking games and not enough players.
>Go back to old multi player games.
>Only players remaining are the ones who never left and can shit stomp everything so fast you don't have enough time to enjoy the game.

>>250026325
No that one

>>250025001

But now I don't know anymore

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>That old forum you loved back in the day was an Invision Power Board
>you could change the skins from a drop down menu
>it was so clean and simple

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>>250024956
get on my level.

>>250026476
>everytime msn stopped working

>>250026218

You just made me go to ytmnd after not going there in YEARS.

Here's one that I made: http://steamboy.ytmnd.com/

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>>250026429
Nope, the forum I went to behaved a bit differently.

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forum avatar from back when everyone hated steam

>>250024092
what the fuck was that?

>>250026334
>Find new cool multiplayer game
>just a few players, small community
>"i wished there were more people playing this game"
>POOF
>more players all of a sudden
>the new players want changes, a lot of them
>developers agree / sell their game to another gay dev
>elitists and olfriends rage and leave forever
>game turns into cancer

Lookin at you AoS

>>250026956
You seriously can't figure it out by their names alone?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrQN-RJYFEI

>>250023975
Best solution I've seen yet

>Ebaums
>Albinoblacksheep
>Newgrounds
>Shockwave
>Miniclip
>funnyjunk

What were some others? I know you used this shit.

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There still hasn't been a videogame made of this

>>250027792
I used to go on one called holylemon.

>>250020151

>Some months ago
>Be very good in tf2, but didn't played for a long while
>Choose to be heavy
>Killing a lot of people, a medic show up
>starts to healing me
>sprays a pony

F10 enter

>>250027421

>Dem servers that did nothing but jeep races, plane balancing, and bumper boats.

>>250027091
Not him but I don't know what it is either. Please help us out.

>>250023659
"Dumbing down" is subjective, even if valid in some cases (Like the one you mentioned).

It's mostly matchmaking instead of server browsers (plus the death of dedicated servers), and market saturation.

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>>250026006
I know exactly how you feel.

I attended a LANWAR back in 06 (maybe 07, I forget) and the main draw was the LAN but it included tournaments for prizes by the guys hosting the event.

It was a fun weekend. Met some dudes who played the same games as me, I was on a team that competed in a CS1.6, DoD, and I myself competed in a WC3 tourney solo. There were also things like a Guitar Hero invitational, a Ms. gamer pageant, and a Tug-of-war (My team placed second because we had two big guys on our side). During the event there were announcements for when somebody would set up a server for play (like UT3, Worms, or SC) and people would hop in. People casually would walk around other tables and strike up conversation about system specs or games. I can recall getting into multiple conversations about anime at the time, it was part of the reason I started watching it shortly after.

The competitions were nothing televised or serious, they were fun. The winner got a prize (like a t-shirt from a sponsor or a food voucher to a restaurant in the area) and aside from some friendly name-calling there was no intense spite or hatred for competitors. After the event was over many of us even stayed to help clean up the tables and help the sponsor guys put away their speakers and chairs. It was more like a community thing.

Flash forward to today and you can see the difference. Like you said, it's driven by money and nothing good comes from that.

TL;DR Capitalism ruins everything.

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>>250027792
lemonparty.org, it's not as well known as it used be but it's still a great source of some new material sometimes

>>250027792
punchbaby

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OMG WTF YOU FUCKING HACKER FAGGOT FUCKING FUCK

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>>250026476

>>250028157
Nobody is that new. Goatse.com on the other hand, that place is hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaA_cs4WZHM

>dat video where someone calls a guy a hacker
>guy takes kids computer outside and smashes it

>>250028392
The years...

>>250022281
>oh no doctor connors class

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>>250026931
Thanks, I was missing that one.

>>250027218
>Ask bar in a browser that's not IE
How can you post this and not feel ashamed of yourself?

>>250028392
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzsY4RfNnBs

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>tfw you'll never again talk to that cute asian girl you know from high school and obviously likes you, act like an aspie while talking to her on AIM and use the XD smiley, actually become confused when she starts acting cold and distant towards you then starts going out with some other guy, after she logs off of AIM you play Q3A, CS, TFC, Diablo II, Brood War, etc.

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This thread gave me cancer from all the bad nostalgia.

>>250027792
Kontraband

>>250026476
this used to freak me out

okay so listen to this theory. XP ruined communities.

So back in the day playing games (mainly fps games i guess) was just about the game. No leveling, no perks, no unlocks. But now almost every single game has these.

So now instead of playing the game for either the sake of competition or even fun, people play for the XP.

But of course people play for fun still you might say. But have you ever heard someone say I want to unlock XYZ already so i can stop playing! Or I'm so sick of this gun but I want to get XYZ! I'm so sick of this map but I want this achievement!!!

So instead of forming bonds with people with similar competitive natures, or conversely instead of forming bonds with people who like to dick around instead of being competitive. Both are ignored and the focus is on the items instead of those around them. This leads to less desire to form a bond with other people since your focus is not on them.

Also since sorting through unlocks and customization can take a long time, people stop playing the game and instead leave servers to fix their chracter or customize their guns. Then rejoin another random server with new people they dont care about.

Also shit like hats etc. trading in games like DOTA2, TF2, CSGO. makes it so people can't wait for the end of the map to come or time to progess for their items. Most people I knew who played tf2 stopped playing but were still logged on every day to trade or idle for items.

So in summary, items/xp/unlocks helped destroy communities in certain respects.

>>250028872
You wrote all that shit, and nobody will ever read it.

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>>250028061
Boat ramming in BF1942 was indeed good fun.

What's more insulting than laying a full broadside into an enemy carrier from your battleship?

Doing it right after ramming the fucker head on. hehe

I miss what Battlefield used to be about.

>>250027218
>>>250028096
It's in the fucking window title.

>>250028872
You could have summed that up in like 1 sentence. Experience points killed video games.

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>>250028392
NO!

IT'S IN MY HEAD AGAIN!

Steam communities are one of the most cancerous tumors on video games today. Before you needed to put in effort to both locate a community and then figure out how to actually fit in and behave yourself. If you didn't do that you formed your own.

>>250028954

I write lots of shit no one reads /dontmattertomenigga

>>250029058

Then people would be like NUH UH! THEY MAKE GAMES BETTER IDIOT!

So i wrote some more to defend my point

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Boy thank god that's all over and done with eh

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willie
arnie

>>250028958

Dat map.

>Server has self damage from explosions turned off.
>Sneak onto enemy carrier and hijack one of their bombers.
>Wheel far away from enemy spawn point.
>Mash bomb button.
>Easy win.

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who /stickdeath/ here ?

>>250029507
>THEY MAKE GAMES BETTER IDIOT!
see: every lolfaggot

I think that Facebook killed communities.
Forums got abandoned, and everything went to shit after that

>>250028872
XP is just one of the many things derived from the centralization of multiplayer modes in games, alongside matchmaking and the great Public Dedicated Servers genocide of 2009.

It can all be summarized as planned obsolescence.

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>>250028872

I completely agree with you.

I remember when I got into the Dota 2 beta in late 2011, I gave one of my spare invites to a friend who played Warcraft 3 DotA, HoN then was playing LoL alot. We played for a bit, but he quickly lost interest and went back to LoL. I asked him why, and he said "there is no account leveling, unlocks or anything, so what's the point of playing?" Sure, eventually Dota 2 did get account leveling and cosmetics, so did CS GO, but I enjoyed those games even before they added those, and continue enjoying them while not giving a shit about the cosmetics, the fact that I'm making money from playing those games now is just a nice bonus.

When did the whole XP/unlock fad start? When did people decide that they will only play games that have XP and unlocks? Was it CoD4 and LoL? Maybe WoW? (remember, not only was WoW alot of people's first MMORPG, it was their first RPG too)

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>>250019554
>In smaller communities ties form
>Video games become mainstream
>Casuals flood in
>Communities are no longer small
>They dissolve under the torrent of new people

There you have it, like everything else it turning bad can be directly linked to it becoming the 'in' thing.

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>>250030003
Damn, old youtube was something different. Smosh was incredibly popular there too.

>>250030045
old forum avatar, anyone?

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/v/, do you remember when you first joined the internet? You set out to engage in "internet culture", and spent hours on end playing shitty flash games, which took minutes to load on your shitty connection? Remember when you had to ask your parents to use the computer? You didn't care what others though of you, or what you posted, so long as you were having FUN? When you thought 4 panel rage comics were the shit? Do you miss those days, ever wish that you could go back to the past yesteryears?

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>>250028872
what the fuck kind of friends do you play with?
no one I know gives a shit about hats
Anyway, XP is there to add a sense of progress, people (as far as i can tell, people dont usually quit each match to switch up their loadouts, and if they do, they probably didn't care about "community" anyway.

>>250021735

>you'll never get to play UO or WoW for the first time ever again

>>250029871
>that game where you execute a dude with various weapons
>get to M16
>holy shit

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Do you remember when /v/ made you feel things you weren't sure how to feel about or if you've ever felt before?

fuck you /v/ you faggets

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>>250028410
I wish I knew where that video was.

It was a popular conversation item during ducktape wars.

>>250029692
cum lube?
is it edible, and what does it taste like?

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>>250030045
MY HANDS ARE SHAKING

BUT I'M STILL SHOOTING
I'M STILL GETTING THE HEADSHOTS

>>250028645
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA

Probably the only ABS video I cared about

>tfw chuck norris has been irrelevent since the new decade
RIP

>>250030463
I remember getting excited about learning new abbreviations like 4um.
god

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Bam.

>>250023847
That fucking music

>>250027792
Ytmnd

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>>250030460
>Evolution of dance will never again be the most watched video ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx8gWMFFOwo

>>250030664

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70mv9O0ILQM

posting my personal favorites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_MevLRTgDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFldBVWFgWo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxtvcIDQdDI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgUs8z5YSfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lnFNUkGt3o

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>>250030045

>>250030273

I think it started with Battlefield 2. It had weapons you could unlock over a VERY long time, and you had to make some real choices on which ones you wanted to unlock 1st.

Then CoD4 kicked it into MASSIVE overdrive with its unlock and leveling system and almost every single game made since CoD4 has had a similar type of system. Even Red Orchestra 2 caved and adopted that same system.

The only major FPS games i can think of that don't have it are Arma games, but the multiplayer mods like wasteland or altis life have their own versions of it, where you unlock items with money you grind for.

>>250030487

idk, I played with many groups of people and got TF2 with the Orange Box. I had friends who played since it came out but they all stopped playing and only traded after that was out for a long while.

>>250030560
I've been looking for that for awhile, the one where he kills the scientists in the lunch room, right? Have the name?

How things have changed...
you were allowed to have fun back then...

>>250028872
I still play cs 1.6 because the game is fun and timeless.
Levels and repetetive grinding should stick to RPGs and mmos. I know people that just play something to complete it like a task.

Counter Strike ruined everything.

Gaming turned into dogshit because of Counter Strike.

>>250030460
>Damn, old youtube

Sure was, all the free anime, movies and tv series you could watch.

>>250031447
I'd like to see your reasoning behind that other than BAWW MUH ARENA SHOOTERS

>>250027218
>Order of the Stick
Muh Nigga

>>250031447

That's a funny way of spelling Halo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl6RJyZdBSU
I will never understand how I could tolerate that quality back then

>>250027792
ytmnd
Joe Cartoon

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I honestly wish we were still fapping over this image instead of having to endure what came to reality

>>250027792
I used to visit /v/ - The Vidya before it became /v/ - Video Games

>>250031701
Because its all we ever knew. Its like how you remember that old n64 game having the cleanest textures and highest poly count you have ever seen then going back to it and it looks like muddy ass.

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>>250027218
>toolbars
I remember installing a gorgillion extensions/addons/whatever to internet explorer to play shitty mario fangames. I remember one of them being like paper mario but a platformer (basically a worse version of Super Paper Mario, without pixels or anything).

>>250031701
implying your ears can tell the differene

>>250031920
it changed often, but it's been Video Games since 2013 or 2012 now, I wish moot would change it again for old times sake

>>250031610

Everyone turned into obnoxious fuckwits because of that game. And it's only gotten worse.

>>250021374
The first time I saw this one I busted a gut

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>>250030463
I miss getting into filemanager to find my hidden stash of porn in Win3.11.

My parents never knew.

Off topic, and a wild shot in the dark at that, but does anybody remember back in the old ages of porn when people set up there own sites to post nudes of themselves? I have been searching for over 20 years to find this one gal I had fapped to countless times when I was a wee laddy. She was distinct in my mind for the following: She did public nudity, she had a weird tramp stamp above her ass that looked like a shit-stain on thumbnails, curly mid length hair, many of her shots involved her riding a bicycle, and she had a beautiful smile. My old folder of .bmps were lost when the family computer took a dump on itself and died many years ago, I have not been able to find that girl ever since. This is my desperate cry from the bottom of the world's lowest hole, someone save me.

>>250030003
Fucking evolution of dance was the most over hpyed phenomenon on the Internet. Now everything gets that level of hpe

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Social networks destroyed the Internet, now it's all about subs, likes and views.

Fuck that,

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l33tsp34k was the shit

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http://www.ragdolllaserdodge.com/

Post your scores, video games.
>that old ass sound quality

>>250030612
It's not gay if it's Bridget, faggot.

>>250030681
It's not edible.
It tastes horrible too.

>>250032348
>not heli attack 2

every fucking day in business class i would play that shit

>>250031197
it's just like the shitty ironic montages!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSVNbxjdvv8

Goddamn, it's just as bad as I remember it.
;;_;;

>>250031158
>tfw you can see your old self in the background

>>250019554
Holy shit that .gif is trying way too hard.

>communities

If they're big enough for everyone to know about them then they're shit. Everything goes to shit once it gets popular enough, and I mean EVERYTHING. People ruin good things. That's just how shit goes down. Communities are at their best when it's small and populated strictly by the dedicated fans, and even then it's still a ticking time bomb.

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>>250020151

Most of them stay on brony servers. You'll see the occasional pub brony in valve servers.

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>>250032348
>posted reaction pic instead of score
Here's mine

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>>250027792
YTMND when it was still funny. Original content like Gay Fuel was fantastic.

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Did 4chan change during the last years or did we change? I don't want to sound like our secret club, but the internet is flooded with memes and how we treat it, good example would be doge, just all over the place.

>>250032458
2 was so much better than 3 as well

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>stickpage
>stickdeath

>stick people dying in voilent ways in general

>>250032890
>dat shotgun sound
>BOOM CHUCK CHUCK
>dat robot voice over

>>250031349
This makes a surprisingly good iPhone wallpaper. At least the one without the extra bubbles in the border.

>you will never be retarded kid that plays tibia and CS again
>you will never post embarasing stuff on internet forums again
>you will never fap to animated porn again
>all those memories will be lost in time

>>250032640

It's also old as dirt by internet standards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJVolaC8pw
I AIN'T NO GODDAMN SON OF A BITCH
Nothing reminds me about being an edgemaster like the love i gave this video

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a classic

>>250033026
>UGH
>UGH UGH UGH

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>>250032343
j00 d0|\| 3\/3|\| |\|0 d00d

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Not many will get this one, but that's okay.

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>>250032864
Social media caused mass interest to come into the internet. It will never be the same again. We didn't grow up on a mass media internet like those now. We lived in what could be considered the "Wild West" even. Hell, when was the last time you got a virus anon? Not a pussy ass modern day bug, but and honest, rape your machine to death virus? We live in a pacified world now and there is no going back.

>>250021506
I want to watch the whole fucking video.
European song contest with a french contestant, was it?

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>>250019554
>server communities with rank whores
not even once

>>250032864
4chan accidentally spawns memes that it embraces for a little bit until it is aborted for the rest of the internet to enjoy

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>Remembering how edgy you were
>Still mad Vegeta never got the respect he deserved

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>>250032864
Everything changes.

You are not the same person you used to be, you are an evolution of the person of yesterday with more experiences and self-awareness. In a world of constant change and chaos it is best to remember what was and continues to move forward because it is impossible to cling to the past successfully.

As much as I would like to be my 19-year old self again, it will never happen. Everything rots.

>>250033371
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEDPZ8MSDLw

Damn Alizée.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3YxgBrnorI

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>>250032864

both

The userbase changed more than the people who already browsed it though, the internet as a whole is vastly more popular than it was even just 4 years ago, social media is now the driving force and the very focus of social media has changed from a neat way to keep in contact with your friends to a way to advertise and get statistics on millions of people.

The difference in social media then, like myspace, and the social media of now like twitter and facebook is staggering. Companies take the internet seriously now so it's all commercialized and seen as a way to gain money, everything now wants your name and to get your statistics on what you view.

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>>250033258
You will never degauss your monitor again.

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>>250033642
>there will never be an ova with vegeta saving the day and being the strongest

>>250033909
>tfw everyone I know played Runescape but I never did
I will never know these feels

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>>250033309
It's sad to think about, but at least I get to say that I experienced the golden age of internet.

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>>250033909

>>250022647
I can't remember where this was from but I remember laughing to it.

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>>250033850

>>250021735
That was great.

>>250032343
"overclock your breakfast" is still hilarious

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>>250033850
Thanks anon.

>>250034115
Honestly, I found that TOR feels a lot like early internet to me. A lot of basic designed websites, small communities, and enough illegal materal to keep companies at bay. I love it.

>>250019554
Holy fuck that's some nostalgia right there.

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>>250019554

I play on an FFXI private server, I've only been playing a week, I got banned for asking a question a GM didn't like. Lot's of ass kissers on their it seems

Private chat systems, like Ventrillo.

>>250024216
>Furfags had ruined TF2 years before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OykiZa-UZNE
Ruined, or IMPROVED?

>>250034486
madmins have always been a thing though

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So, what will the next great thing be?

Internet is dying and becoming a normalfag thing, where do we go now? Back to Ham Radio and make it full circle? Do we try and embrace some other kind of media outlet that big companies aren't balls deep into?

Where can I go to be free again?

>>250033986
I notice every day how I am the only person on the bus without modern phone browsing the internet.

>>250034640
>Internet is dying and becoming a normalfag thing
you're about 15 years late

>>250034630

Yeah i know, just responding to OP, not trying to prove anything.

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>>250033909
>choppan trees
>making fires
>getting tricked into getting killed in the wildy
>press 123 for a gf, get married at that chapel place
>that level 3 nigga near one of the first towns with a rune pickaxe destroying that little mining area
>sp00ky ghosts in the trees

some fucking great times man

also it was nice that everyone knew who the 'best' player was. based zezima

>>250034640

Somalia is last bastion of freedom

>>250024956
I'm still at a forum where one user is using that one

>>250034684
In the past it was newspapers, iPods, walkmans, and gameboys

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>>250032343
I used to have a folder called "If hackers ruled the world" but I've since deleted it long ago.

Maybe I'll get lucky and find it on a disk somewhere in my basement someday.

Its still up after all of these years, time to go exploring.

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

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>>250034115
Holy fucknugget, dem dating sims!

>>250034787
>he doesn't know about hidden internet

Only the worthy may tread upon this land.

>>250019554
>play niche game with 4chan fags
>close-knit community of like-minded individuals
>no ass-kissing
feels good man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqDvLeG1pgU

>>250034824
Erryone knew zezima

>>250027792
>Albinoblacksheep

French erotic film
The end of the world

those were my favourites

to answer your question: z0r.de

>>250034640
There is no place, the internet is everywhere. The only option is to hide and enjoy something from the past in your dark basement and forget about the world around you for just a little before returning into the daily madness we witness.

>>250034640
In our current system everything will be violated by the corporate dick, there is nowhere to run anymore the only way to stop the cancer would be to overthrow capitalism but that is also seemingly impossible.

>>250034469
Enjoy it while it lasts. The internet was fun back in the day because it was like an open barely-discovered world where everything was new and unseen. Nowadays when you find something, it's already been reposted/retweeted on some social media site a thousand times. If you send anything to someone nowadays, you'll most likely a get a response like "oh, yeah I saw that on ______"

>>250035341
Oh god no

>>250035341
Goddamnit, that game gave me the biggest blue balls.

>>250035341
howtolockathread.jpg

>>250033258

Please explain

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Anyone remember this thread? It was the most hilarious fucking thread I've ever been in in /v/

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>>250026925

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Post something another anon hasn't seen in years

>>250034115
Naruhaseyes unlock a playable naru. Never forget.

>>250020151
Thanks to more Valve servers, the horse fuckers stay in their quarantine and you still have lots of options. If you ever see a faggot stray into a public server then you have a functional vote-kick system which seems to be lost on many community servers.

Horsefuckers aren't a problem any more.

>>250019554
I for one praise the gruesome agonizing death of "teh" and "n00b" and all that other garbage.

I look back on screenshots from CS way back in the day and cringe at how stupid it fucking looks.

>>250035341
Our bros are dead guys.
Moot killed the text boards

>>250035341
Is this shit beatable? I never emoved the bra, ffs.
THought I loved the idea of a guy pumping an already sleeping girl with mroe and more anestesia so he could touch her arm

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>>250035924
On windows95 you would get this screen when you wanted to shut down your pc. You had to press the power button again to turn it off without losing any data you saved.

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Do you love icecream? I love icecream!

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>>250035943
That shit even ain't that...

>almost 8 years now since Brushie

>>250036135

It's sad that people are now such sensitive faggots that they are afraid of text and le cringe at everything that isn't standard status quo format of the day.

I said things that are now considered unacceptable by modern standards! LE CRINGGGGEEEEEE

yes, i mad.

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>tfw you HDD died and you lost all 4chan pictures pre 2011

>>250036417

Ah, I see.

Thanks for clearing that up.

>>250036307
>that picture
>that girl
>that game

MY DICK I HAVE TO PLAY THAT AGAIN

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>>250032640
>trying hard
>said the tripfag with no oc

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>>250036608
Give me a hug, brother.

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>>250036608
>tfw you had no space on your harddrive and deleted many images pre 2011
>also never made a habit of saving large numbers of reaction images till 2012

Also this image was confirmed for fake right?

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On the good side, we have full porn videos streamed on the internet without getting viruses or these 30 seconds video clip samples of hentai from membership sites in the past.

>you will never use the internet for the first time again

>>250036583
I've always hated shitty lazy shorthand to be "hip" with the time. lol is just a shorthand way to let me know you're instantly a retard.

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>>250037150
>kazaa

>>250033850
I will never fuck the Alizée from this moment in time, and I accept that. It still hurts though.

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>>250020823